How about sustainability? (Score 1)

I'm sure profitability makes the business-owners and investors out there happy, but I can't say I care too much about it. No self-respecting hacker is going to seriously worry about turning a profit, right? And it's not my goal in life to be part of something along those lines, either. But making a living and keeping the ball rolling is of interest to everyone, I imagine.

How does one go about taking a neat idea, an impulse, an epiphany and turning it into a project or company that can sustain itself, though? There ought to be a HOWTO out there on that!

How to be an entrepeneur and not obsess about making big bucks...the two seem to go hand in hand these days. Bah!

And yeah, I'm obivously too incoherent to be a successful (read: profitable) businessman ;-P